Some days I wish that I could leave this country, just sail off in a sailboat
and forget about my own two years of living in a dirty garage. It is only a
pipe dream though; an emotional safety valve to allow the overflow of inputs to
blow off into a bucket of fantasy like the bucket that I once washed myself in.
What more can be said besides "I've grown to hate the land of my
birth." Raised as a liberal Democrat I've come to despise even the very
term Democrat as just a meaningless label, empty syllables, like patriot. I've
come to despise that word as a well, as nothing more than a euphemism for right
wing clap trap and more of the usual bull sh*t.

President Obama calls himself a Democrat so what does that term actually mean?
He's a corporate shill who stands at a podium of a private university where the
annual tuition is over $42,500 per year to tell us of sacrifices that we must
make.

A cheap theatric as Republican Ryan paint us a black future and Obama
paints it in shades of gray. A choice between Ryan's reactionary reductions
plus more tax cuts and spending cuts or Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction
panel. A quick glance at the work of Obama's cat food commission will show that
the corporate shill has all ready begun enacting it's spending freezes and
employment freezes. Any idea where the cat food commission got most of their
ideas from? Their ideas were lifted directly from the pages of the 2008
Republican national platform.

"From our first days as a nation, we have put our faith in free markets
and free enterprise as the engine of America's wealth and prosperity.
More than citizens of any other country, we are rugged individualists, a
self-reliant people with a healthy skepticism of too much government."
Barack Obama

Excuse my language here but, bullsh*t!

Just bull sh*t; from the first days as a nation we put our faith in
protective tariffs. Out of our fear that the mother country would swamp us
financially to regain what she could not militarily. There was no currency on
Earth so strong as the British Pound nor so weak as the American dollar.
British manufactured goods were at their zenith while American manufactured
goods were but infants.

Then this hearty band of self reliant individualist began their self reliant
trade of brewing corn whiskey. Their healthy skepticism of too much government
ended at the barrel of government muskets. The issue wasn't strong drink; the
issue was a means of storing a corn crop and adding value to an agricultural
product.

Where bankers taxed thusly? Where shopkeepers taxed thusly? No, it was a tax
imposed on poor planters by urban gentry.

The imposition of taxes on the poor multitudes for the benefit of the wealthy
few.

"As a result of these bipartisan efforts, America's finances were in great
shape by the year 2000. We went from deficit to surplus. America
was actually on track to becoming completely debt free, and we were prepared
for the retirement of the Baby Boomers.

But after Democrats and Republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the
1990s, we lost our way in the decade that followed. We increased spending
dramatically for two wars and an expensive prescription drug program --- but we
didn't pay for any of this new spending. Instead, we made the problem
worse with trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts --- tax cuts that went
to every millionaire and billionaire in the country; tax cuts that will force
us to borrow an average of $500 billion every year over the next decade."
Barack Obama

We have been busy haven't we? Barack Obama blames you and I for this fiscal
mess. We paid the US Chamber of Commerce to lobby Congress. We insisted the
Supreme Court illegally decide a Presidential election. We insisted that the
two wars continue and we insisted that Obama raise military spending above Bush
era levels and most of all we demanded that Barack Obama continue the Bush tax
cuts for the wealthiest Americans. We, you and I made him do that, he didn't
want to but we made him do it. Pardon me, but bull sh*t.

The greatest economic downturn in over a century and what does our leader
propose? Tax cuts, that's what we wanted was tax cuts! The President's $786
billion stimulus package was 35 percent tax cuts. After deducting those tax
cuts for big business that left $510 billion for the three hundred million
American people. In Germany they passed a stimulus package of $550 billion for
one hundred million Germans. A stimulus of more than three times the size of
the one Barack Obama said that we wanted.

For workers only unemployment extensions but a jobs program? The jobs program
was simply more tax cuts, wasn't that what we wanted? I must have missed it but
there must have been this huge public outcry for more corporate tax cuts
because Mr. Obama only does what we ask him to do.

April 14 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) misled clients and
Congress about the firm's bets on securities tied to the housing market, the
chairman of the U.S. Senate panel that investigated the causes of the financial
crisis said.

Senator Carl Levin, releasing the findings of a two-year inquiry yesterday,
said he wants the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission
to examine whether Goldman Sachs violated the law by misleading clients who
bought the complex securities known as collateralized debt obligations without
knowing the firm would benefit if they fell in value."

Republican Tom Coburn said; The subcommittee's findings show "without a
doubt the lack of ethics in some of our financial institutions who embraced
known conflicts of interest to accomplish wealth for themselves, not caring
about the outcome for their customers. When that happens, no country can
survive and neither can their financial institutions."

These collateralized debt obligations were labeled a triple A when they were
actually junk, rated by bond agencies who were being paid by the banks. Banks
that profited from your loss, bankers paid multimillion dollars bonuses that
Obama compared to baseball player salaries. These criminals walk the streets
unmolested while one million school age children are homeless on any given
night in America. You know whose fault the corporate shill says that is?
According to Mr. Obama that's your fault too!

A government that offers its people nothing, no help what so ever, only to yell
down from the rescue helicopters to the victims of this economic hurricane,
"You're on your own, what do you want from me? I gave you tax cuts!"
Ten million homes made empty, forty million plus Americans put out in the road
and the shill offers assistance only to "credit worth consumers"
while the rest of you can just f*ck off and die. Well I say bull sh*t!

Real earnings declined 0.6 percent while consumer's prices rose 0.5 percent in
the last thirty days. Unemployment numbers have been reduced on average less
than one percent under Mr. Obama's program of corporate tax cuts. So what does
Mr. Obama now suggest? He suggests working with the Republicans to cut even
more taxes which has now become his hallmark.

"So that's how our fiscal challenge was created. That's how we
got here. And now that our economic recovery is gaining strength,
Democrats and Republicans must come together and restore the fiscal
responsibility that served us so well in the 1990s."

Three million Americans added to the rolls of poverty under this administration
and a majority of those are children. Unemployed persons March 2010, 13,062,000
Number of unemployed persons counted March 2011, 11,754,000 a reduction of
1,308,000. Numbers of persons no longer counted as in the labor force March
2010, 73,363,000 and the number of persons not counted in the work force March
2011, 74,016,000 an increase of 1,653,000 people.

"And now that our economic recovery is gaining strength," bull sh*t!

Governors from Florida, Arizona, Indiana, and New Jersey have now proposed
cutting unemployment benefits while Michigan and Missouri have all ready capped
benefits at twenty weeks. The Chamber of Commerce in Missouri says these
cutbacks will save businesses as much as $124 million a year in taxes. What
does it mean for the mothers and fathers? What will it mean for their children?
"The states need to start taking a stand against a federal government that
will not live within its means and will not control it's spending," said
Chamber CEO Daniel Mehan.

A simple choice is offered, two visions of leadership that both lead down the
road to hell. Benign neglect or aggressive assault. Both visions offer tax cuts
for the rich and spending cuts for the poor. Both visions that offer a future
where Americans will work harder for less. In the last three years the number
of Americans working for minimum wage or below has jumped forty percent. The
number of Americans who own their own homes has fallen below that of Europe.
This isn't the promise of a bright future but a threat to your future by
fascist oligarchy where both parties actively seek to achieve the same goals.

They are adding fuel to the pyre that will eventually consume them. The flames
of which that shall dance joyously in the eyes of working people. There is no
escape, there are no sailboats which could carry us away and I could not go
even if I had the means. I have children and friends with children and I have a
vision of a different place laying its foundation upon the ashes of neglect and
upon the wreckage of oligarchy.

A nation at peace, a nation where children walk to good schools with full
bellies. A nation with health care for all and decent jobs for all. This is not
a pipe dream but a clarion call to look over the horizon because the choice is
yours and the dawn is ripe with possibilities.

I who am I? Born at the pinnacle of American prosperity to parents raised during the last great depression. I was the youngest child of the youngest children born almost between the generations and that in fact clouds and obscures who it is that I (more...)